Death turns strange tricks: The 2010 passing of Memphis garage-rock songwriter Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr., or Jay Reatard, didn’t have any particular impact on the North Carolina music scene. By the time he died at the age of 29, Reatard had become a genre figurehead; beyond his Tennessee home, his influence became apparent in the […]
Bryan C. Reed
Bio: Bryan Reed lives in Raleigh, where he nerds out about punk rock and comic books. He's written about music for INDY Week since 2008.Twitter: http://twitter.com/BryanCReed
Posted inMusic
Live: Jeb Bishop and Jorrit Dijkstra weave simplicity, complexity
Jeb Bishop & Jorrit DijkstraNeptune’s ParlourNov. 15, 2012 Against a backdrop of exposed brick and dimly lit by scattered lamps and tabletop votive candles, the casual performance Jeb Bishop and Jorrit Dijkstra offered last night at Neptune’s in Raleigh offered welcome shelter from the chilly breeze and spitting rain outside. The set began unassumingly, as […]
Posted inMusic
Review: COC reissues Eye For An Eye
Corrosion of Conformity Eye For An Eye (Candlelight) As Corrosion of Conformity celebrated its 30th anniversary this year, the Raleigh hard-rock institution has invited plenty of opportunity to reflect on its storied and varied career. In January, the band released a new album that linked the urgent rush of their early hardcore punk days with […]
Posted inMusic
Waumiss’ Subtle for Flames
Waumiss plays the WXYC Backyard BBQ with The Toddlers at Chapel Hill Underground Sunday, Oct. 28, at 5 p.m. Tickets are $3. In the four years since the self-titled debut from Waumiss, the playful husband-and-wife duo of Clarque and Caroline Blomquist, the band has released only two tracks, both remixes: one of Whatever Brains’ “You’re […]
Posted inMusic
Henry Rollins + Ronald Reagan Forever
Henry Rollins speaks at the Lincoln Theatre Saturday, Oct. 20. Tickets are $18–$28 for the 8 p.m. start. Thinking about the traits that Ronald Reagan and Henry Rollins might share is a deluge of irony. For his part, President Reagan was the social-conservative nemesis of 1980s punk bands. During his administration, Rollins charged through the […]
Posted inMusic
Lloyd Pack, featuring Dan Melchior and Letha Rodman-Melchior, announce debut 7-inch
They say in times of crisis, a person’s true colors reveal themselves more brilliantly than ever. That certainly seems the case for Dan Melchior and his wife, Letha Rodman-Melchior, local musicians (he fronts and she plays bass for Dan Melchior Und Das Menace) who, since Letha was diagnosed with melanoma and breast cancer in 2010, […]
Posted inMusic
Welcome to Storytellers. We’re OFF!
Photo by Jake ThomasKeith Morris of OFF!, onstage in Raleigh OFF!, Negative Approach, Double NegativeKingsSept. 30, 2012 Supergroups almost always seem better in principle than in practice. It’s unfair, after all, to task a group of respected artists with overcoming their collective résumé, but that’s the job at hand: Remind us of your past glories, […]
Posted inMusic
Who needs a hardcore reunion? OFF! plays Kings tonight
Older dudes This wasn’t supposed to happen to hardcore. Reunion gigs and supergroups have historically been the domain of faded dinosaur rockers, the same type of axe-slinging pomp-rock that punk was supposed to be a reaction against. Hardcore—child of the trickle-down, Cold War 1980s—was primitive and impulsive, youth-centric and nihilistic. Under the shadow of nuclear […]
Posted inMusic
Que Viva, indeed: Spider Bags at Kings
Spider Bags, The Golden Boys, Limes Kings Sept. 20, 2012 The song “Que Viva El Rocanrol” was released twice, almost simultaneously, in August 2009. It appeared first on Compulation Volume 3: Songs from North Carolina, released by Pox World Empire, and then again about a week later on Spider Bags‘ second full-length, Goodbye Cruel World, […]
Posted inMusic
Beloved Binge’s Pockets
Beloved Binge plays The Pinhook with Billy Sugarfix and Ellectronic Saturday, Sept. 22, at 10 p.m. Tickets are $6. When Beloved Binge‘s husband-and-wife duo Rob Beloved and Eleni Binge moved from Seattle to Durham in 2005, they entered a new and growing scene of playfully adventurous DIY-ers. Their first record as an N.C. act, 2006’s […]
